Science, Maths & Technology
The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System
...source of energy. If micro-organisms exist within Enceladus’s ocean, whole cells, or the molecules they produce, might be ejected into space in the plumes. This means that a spacecraft need not sample the ocean – or even land on the surface at all – to search for life at Enceladus; it could simply fly through the plumes to capture ejected materials. Cassini did...